Legal Opinion
Newman v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 13, 2004No. 31, September Term, 2004PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BATTAGLIA, Judge.
This case presents the issue of the proper scope of the attorney-client privilege and whether a curative instruction adequately counteracted the prejudice of eliciting testimony about the exercise of a defendant’s Miranda rights. Because we find that the communications between Elsa Newman [hereinafter “Newman”] and her former attorney, Stephen Friedman [hereinafter “Friedman”], at issue in the present case fall within the attorney-client privilege and are not subject to the crime-fraud exception, we reverse the decision by the Court of Special Appeals and remand the case to…
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